Positive thinking may boost the body’s defenses against disease. Increasing activity in a brain region that controls motivation and expectation, specifically the brain’s reward system, is linked with ...
Stimulating the brain's self-control center via rTMS reduces smoking by 11 cigarettes a day, outperforming reward-suppression ...
“The amygdala is an important center for emotions and decision-making,” says Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, head of the Junior Research Group Social Neurobiology at the German Primate Center. “We wanted to ...
A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on ...
"I Think We're Alone Now," from the visual journals of Cathy Malchiodi, PhD © 2018 Source: ©2018 Cathy Malchiodi, PhD Like many psychotherapists who include music ...
Using computational models, the researchers studied how the brain's reward-learning system functions in those with depression, especially among individuals experiencing anhedonia, the inability to ...
In a study in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists Pearl Chiu and Brooks Casas investigate how brain signals involved in reward learning might help ...
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